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Black Tornado Thinclads Gain Five Titles in Northwest AAU Let Lingscheit, Jerry Close, 1 Neil Plumley of Medford and a Medford relay team captured championship in the high school division and Johnny Jones of Medford took a title in the jun ior division Saturday in the Northwest AAU track and field meet at Portland. Lingscheit won the half-mile in 2:02 and Close established a new broad jump mark of 22 feet 5V4 inches. Plumley took the shot put with 56-8. the best effort of his prep career. The Medford 880-yard relay squad, made up of three half milers and a sprinter, beat Pen dleton and Oswego, by 15 yards in 1:35.1. Lingscheit, Bilbee Lane and Wincheii and dashman Jones, anchoring, made up the crew. Jones won the junior 100- yard dash in 10.4 and was sec pnd in the 180 in :19.1. Trio 3mied The half-mile triumvirate was denied in its aim of a three-way effort under two minutes. Lane, the state high school champ, was five yards back of Lingscheit. Wincheii, who was boxed in and couldn't shake loose, was sev enth in the field of 23. Junior bracket placers for Medford included Bruce Bolde- now, second in the javelin with a throw of around 155 feet; Frank Albert, fourth in the shot with a put of 53 feet plus; Dave Bergman, fifth in the high jump, and Roger Johnson, sixth in the mile. Terry Hamilton failed to place In junior hurdles and Ron Reich didn't get a place in the junior 440-yard run. Three ex-Medford high ath letes did well in the college div ision of the meet. Jack Morns was first in the 400-meter hurdles in :55.3 and Don Spinas was second. Ed Bingham won the javelin with 207V4. Morris and Spinas were on the winning mile relay team. The three are University of Oregon varsity trackmen. Portland (U.R) i Jim Bailey, the first man to crack the four minute mile in the United States, led the way through the Oregon AAU track and field meet here Saturday night, cracking the meet record for the 880 and tour ing the two laps in 1:54.4. Bill Dellinger, the other half of Oregon's crack distance duo, won a special 5000 meter event, going the extended distance in 14:40.2. Dellinger was a double win ner, capturing the two-mile in 9:29, considered good in light of his upcoming 5000 meter jaunt. Dean Benson,- NAIA high hurdle national champion, was the only man other than Bailey to crack a meet record. Benson established a new standard in the high obstacles of 14.2, shat tering the record set in 1952 by Bob Mathias of Stanford in 14.3. Wesley Victor The Wilamette university track star has ran the event In a better time only once, that a 14.1 in the NAIA district meet last year. Sam Wesley, speedy sopho more from Oregon State, won the 100 in 9.9 and added a vic tory in the 220, coming home in 21.9. Other double winners were Don McCIure of Oreeon with a mark of 44 feet 8V4 inches in the hop-step-and-jump and fol lowed by a leap of 23.9 in the broad jump, and Washington's Larry Pulford. Pulford took the discus with a heave of 152-2 and then tossed the shot 52 feet 11V4 inches for a blue ribbon there. Phil Paquain of Grants Pass raised the prep pole vault stan dard to 12 feet 7 inches. STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L Pet Los Angela 36 18 .667 Seattle - 35 23 .603 Sacramento 29 23 .358 Portland 28 27 309 San Diego 28 29 .491 San Francisco 26 30 Hollywood 21 32 J9S 14 ,i Vancouver 18 38 J16 20 GB 3 6 S'i .464 II Sunday! Results: ' Los Angeies 5-8 San Franciaco 3-4 Seattle 4-4 Hollywood 1-2 San Diego 7-2 Vancouver 2-3 Portland 1-5 Sacramento 0-3 MEDFORDjWrRIBUNE SIPCDMT Colts Clip Eagle Point; Ashland, Grants Pass Win Pirates Hold Brief Lead Milwaukee, 'Wis. U.R) The amazing Pittsburgh Pirates, In the National League lead briefly Sunday lor ine nrsi ume aince 1948. accepted the dis tinction with the calm and in difference a perennial front-runner might display. Tn tK Inflrnr rnnm after their conquest of the Milwaukee Braves, 3-1. In the opening game of a doubleheader, photo- TPTtOrter STld TV cameramen had to egg on the Pirates to show excitement auoui their scant hold on the National League lead. a pittshnruh club last led the league on May 10. 1948, except for the opening day oi me i!" ,hcn Via Pirates were also on top briefly. Milwaukee made Pittsburgh's current hold on the top rung a brief one by winning the second game Sun day, 4-3. and moving oacn im -nn.min with m 606 to .600 per centage advantage over the Pi rates. Littler Leading In Texas Tussle Dallas Tex. (U.R) Cary Mid- dlecoff still was very much in contention for the $14,000 top money in the $70,000 Texas In ternational Goll lournarocu today because he had the poise to keep a horrible triple bogey from upsetting his efficiency. The lanky Tennessee dentist, playing out of Dallas, was still two monumental-size strokes be hind front-running little Gene Littler of Singing Hills. Calif., as the field hit the final payoff round today, with Littler at 197 and Middlecoff at 199. Robert De Vincezno of Argen tina was three strokes off the leader's pace with a 200. BENDER TAKES NEW POST La Grande U.R) By Bender, assistant football coach at Elgin high school for the past three years and recently named as head coach for next fall, has re signed :he post to take a posi tion in the McMinnville school system. The Cheney Colts, making their second appearance of the season in the circuit, broke into the win column of the semi-pro Rogue Valley Baseball league yesterday. They tnrottled Eagle Point 14 to 4 at the fairgrounds park here. Only nine hits were col-, lected by the Colts but they had the help of 12 EP miscues also to aid their run-making. There were three innings of three or more runs for the Colts. Grants Pass whipped Camp White 6 to 4 and Ashland won from Cave Junction 8 to 6 in their loop games. The Butte Falls-Glendale result was not re ported. Lloyd Hoffine, ex-Southern Oregon college tosser, and Jim Taylor, Colt's addition from Ari zona State college, combined to hold the Eagle nine to five hits. All the bingles were off Hof fine in his seven innings. Hof fine drew the starting assign ment when Eldon Davidson, the Valley View Main Taken By Bousman Allen Bousman of Klamath Falls drove across the finish line first in the main event Sat urday night as 1,800 to 2,000 fans were on hand to witness the first hardtop auto races of the season at Valley View speed way near Ashland. Bousman skeppered K25 to triumph. Art Pollard of Rqseburg in R87.1ook the A - trophy dash along with the fourth heat race. Dale Himmelwright, driving a Klamath car, K33, was victor in the B trophy romp but a seven car pile-up hurt his chances in the second heat race. Jack Mc Coy won the event in A2. Him melwright was leading at the time of the pile-up in the sixth lap. Bill Metzger In his Roseburg car, R-89, took the first heat and Wayne Lemley nabbed the third. Floyd Bodfleld of Roseburg totalled out in R41 in the third heat. His machine flipped over on No. 19 car driven by Tex Ford of Brookings. Thirty-three cars . were on hand. Races arc slated each Satur day night at Valley View. . Women's Golf slated hurler, reported a sore shoulder. A hit batter, three errors, a single by Taylor and Morrie Churchman's sacrifice flyout gave the Colts four runs in the first inning. A walk, error and groundout got a runin the sec ond inning. For four runs in the fourth, Hoffine three-baggered, Serak and Tonn got hits, there were two errors and Don La Beau squeezed home Tonn. A base on balls, Vera Par ent's hit and an error accounted for two runs in the fifth in ning. In the sixth Taylor singled and Churchman dittoed. Tay lor was safe at home when he knocked the ball from catcher Willie Garner's grasp. In the eighth chukker for three runs there were three misplays, a hit by Taylor and a base on balls. Eagle Point got two runs in the third inning when Steve Geary was hit by a pitch, Dick Brown walked and Dennis Bor- en doubled. In the sixth for two more there were two errors, a hit batter and Dick Osborne's single. Hoffine and Taylor each whif fed four batters. Hoffine hit two and walked two and Taylor hit one . Boren and Sid Peterson, the Eagle Point pitchers, each fan ned two. Boren was reached for seven hits and Peterson two. Peterson yielded one walk and Boren three and Boren hit, a batter with a pitch. Taylor had three hits in five times up for the Colts. Grants Pass tallied four times in the eighth inning to come from behind and down Camp White. The outs came with two out. Bruce Brickell tripled in three markers after a walk, an error and Glenn Reese's single. Dick James brought Brickell home ,on a sacrifice fly. Dick Wooton hit three for four and Larry Irwin and Norm Loop each two for four for Camp White. Jay Reese swatted two for three and Les Shaw two for four for Grants Pass. NATIONAL LEAGCI W Milwaukee Pittsburgh CincinnaU St. Louia Brooklyn 20 13 24 16 New York Philadelphia irucago i , ., Prt .606 .600 23 18 .561 24 19 .558 20 19 .513 17 23 .425 15 23 .395 13 25 J42 Sunday'! Results: CincinnaU 7 New York 3 (lit) New York 4 Cincinnati 3 (2nd) St. Louis 2 Philadelphia 1 (lit) Philadelphia 9 St. Louis 3 (2nd! Pittsburgh 3 Milwaukee 1 (1st) Milwaukee 4 Pittsburgh 3 (2nd) Brooklyn 4 Chicago 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE New York . Chicago Cleveland . Boston Detroit W L Prt GB 29 16 .644 20 16 J56 41, 22 19 .537 5 21 21 .500 6', 21 21 -5O0 6', 20 23 .465 8 17 25 .405 10', 18 27 .400 11 Baltimore Kansas City , Washington - Sunday's Results: Detroit 6 New York 3 (1st) Detroit 7 New York 4 (2nd. 10 in nings) Kansas city 7 Boston 6 (lit. 10 in nings) Kansas City at Boston 2nd ppd , rain Clicago 12 Baltimore 0 (lsi) Chicago 9 Baltimore 2 (2ndl Cleveland 8 Wash. 4 (1st 12 innings) Washington 7 Cleveland 1 (2nd) NORTHWEST LEAGUE Yakima . Lewiston Eugene Tri-City Spokane Wenatchee . Salem Sunday's Results: All games, postponed, rain. W I. Prt GB . 21 10 .677 . 17 11 607 2'i . 18 13 5B0 3 17 14 JSta 4 . 12 19 .387 9 . 13 32 .371 10 11 20 .354 10 ARMSTRONG ILL Los Angeles (U.R) Henry Armstrong, only boxer ever to hold three world titles simul taneously, was reported in '.'good condition and feeling fine" to day after suffering an apparent digestive disorder. The 43-year-old former champ, now a Bap tist minister, was stricken at his home Saturday night and taken to Los Angeles General hospital. Cougars Cop Coast Toga In Baseball Pullman (U.PJ Washington State College's baseball team was looking ahead to the NCAA playoffs today after capturing the Pacific Coast Conference title by defeating Southern Cal ifornia in two straight games here. The Cougars belted USC 6-2, Friday and then came back to win Saturday, 5-4 in a thriller that featured a one-man attack by WSC catcher Bill Rich. Colorful Buck Baily's Cougars leave Wednesday night for Oma ha, Neb., to represent district 8 in the NAA games that start June 9. Rich drove in all five of the Cougar runs in the first two in nings of WSC's Saturday win with a homer and a double. Monday, June 4. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Duos Reach 2-Ball Final Bob Johnson and Russ Hey sell will oppose Ed Milne and Deane Lambert for the men's two-ball partnership golf champ ionship of Rogue Valley Country club. Johnson and Heysell got into the finals by tripping Pope and Littrell 2 up. Milne and Lam bert won 1 up from Ron Gan dee and Dr. Bruce Stanley. It was not known just when the match will be played. Norton Smith and Jack Crea ger face Alton Anderson and Bob Rector in first flight finals. Smith and Creager beat Al Hart and Harry Millette 2 up in a "semi-final. Anderson and Recto.' took Del Berg and Jim Dunlev; 1 up in the other. . PATTERSON EXAMINED Monticello, N.Y. (U.R) Hea vyweight contender Floyd Pat terson interrupted his training today for Friday night's fight with Tommy (Hurricane) Jack son to undergo a physical exam ination in New York. The Brooklyn youth weighed 181 pounds after sparring four rounds Sunday. Heysell Scores Ace on RV Links F.uss Heysell, Rogue Val ley Country club player, scored his first golfing ace Friday. The hole-ln-ona was on the No. 17 green of the Rogue Valley layout. Heysell used a five iron for the shot. The green is 175 yards from the lee. The divoter was playing in a foursome with Bill Kalibak and Bob Rector of Rogue Val ley and Don Belding of Bould er City, Nev. Marlene Hagge Dodge Champion Pittsburgh (U.R) Mrs. Marltne Bauer Hagge packed S1.S50 top prize money into her duffle bag today and shoved off on the next leg of the lady pros' spring tour after staging a whirl wind finish Sunday to win the 72-hole Dodge Women's Invita tional golf tournament. The Sarasota, Fla., swatter re corded the only sub-par back nine score of the four-day tour ney at water-logged Churchill Valley Country Club by firing a one-under-men's-par 33. Her sparkjing 33, paired with a first nine 38, gave Mrs. Hagge a final round card of 71 and a total of 293. She breezed home five strokes ahead of her sifter, Alice Bauer, Asheville, N.C., and U.S. Women's ODen champ Fay Crocker, of Montevideo, Uruguay. Jacobson, Price Win Best Ball Portland (U.R) A former Washington amateur king and a Seattle university junior, team ed up to card a 66 at the River side Invitational Best-Ball cham pionship here yesterday and walk off with top honors in the two-day tourney. Harold Jacobsen and Dick Price turned in a championship 36-hole card of 133, 11 under par for the Riverside course. Smallwood Pick Over Gonzales New York (U.PJ. Hardy (Bazooka) Smallwood, who works in a Brooklyn bubble gum factory, is favored at 6-5 to stick a defeat on middleweight Tony (Tex) Gonzales of East Orange, N.J.,' tonight in their TV 10-rounder at St. Nicholas Arena. Each is 23. Neither is a rank ing contender; but each is an at tractive performer because of his speed, skill and aggressiveness. JACKSON SPARS Summit, N.J. (U.R) Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson sparred six fast rounds Sunday in prepara tion for his heavyweight elimi nation bout with Floyd Patter son at Madison Square Garden Friday night CUBS INK TWINS Chicago (U.R) Dean and Donald Davis, 18-year-old twins from Tulsa, Okla., have signed Class D contracts with the Chi cago Cubs. Dean is an outfielder and Don is a first baseman. Plymouth, England (U.R) Declan Dwyer, 13, got a birdie in a tennis match Sunday. He slammed the ball across the net and knocked down a flying sparrow. A Vacation Is more fun with extra cash from Stark Finance 2739 No. 99 Phone 1-1817 1 PROTECTION AND SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES CASH BAIL & ATTORNEY FEES EMERGENCY ROAD SERVICE Reggy Drinkwater 906 Maple Park Drive . Phone 2-8048 Pooped Plymouth1? Rasping? Choked? Beat? I.INESCORE8: Eagle Point .... 0002 001 000 4 S 12 Couti 410 321 03x 14 9 3 Boren. Petenon (7) and Garner; Hoffine. Taylor (7) and Taylor, Gat lin (7). Camp White 0O0 110 020 ( 10 J Granta Pass 000 200 04x 6 8 2 Nelson. R. Wooton (8) and Ficham; M. Drews and Fisher. Rogue Valley Country club Lady golfers will be hostesses to Ashland Oak Knoll women on Thursday, June 7. Play will be for two Inter city trophies, one for the 18 hole golfers and one for the nine-hole golfers. Luncheon will be served in the dining room at 1 p.m. Members who have not been contacted for reservations are asked to call Mrs. . B. Radzweit (telephone 2-0423). Ladies wishing to be paired are to arrive at the table In the pro-shop between 8 and 9:30 a.m. Women arriving after 9:30 a.m. are to make their own pair ings and play the front nine first. D players are requested to play in twosomes. , RVCC women are urged to enter National Golf day play on Thursday. Ladies entering will match their r it scores against the gross scon of wom en's U.S. Open champion Fay Crocker who will play her 18 hole round at Oak Hill Country club at Rochester, N.Y., on June 9. Each person competing will pay $1 for each 18-hole round. Attractive National Golf Day medals will be furnished all those defeating Fay Crocker. Ne.' proceeds of National Golf j day will be turned over to the national iron luna to De dis tributed to worthy golf projects and charities. Play of the day for May 31 was fewest putts: Winner in the A group was Mrs. Richard Finch with 28 putts. Mrs. W. L. Stark was winner in the B group with 32 putts. Mrs. Henry Bauman was winner in the C group with 31. Mrs. R. E. Heysell won the 18-hole D group with 32 and in ' the nine-hole D group Mrs. Paul Dix and Mrs. William Ruffner tied with 17 each. RV Girls Divide With Mobilgas Rogue Valley girls' Softball team and Mobilgas of Klamath Falls split a twinbill Saturday night at Eagle Point. The Rogue gals took the first tussle 11 to 2 and Mobilgas the second 11 to 7. Doris Hickson, hurling for the Valley segregation. toxrl a fiva. hitter and did not walk a hat. ter. Pat Barron tripled for Rogue vaiiey and Ellen Callaghan dou bled. Barron hit three for four and Hickson. Arlene Hoffman and Jean Bitterling two for four lor RV. Barron and Hickson yielded only four hits to Mobilgas in the five-inning finale but the KF crew put two use five walks off Barron and three off Hick son in the fray. Hickson hit two for three. Rogue Valley goes to Rose burg next Sunday. The club will meet the Klamath Falls Basin ettes on June 17. I.IKESCORES: Mobilgas 001 100 8 I I 2 Rogue Valley .. 040 332 x 11 10 S Farr. Adrian and Chase; Hickson ana Maine. Rogue Valley . 102 22 T I 2 Mobilgas 018 4x 11 4 1 Adrian and Chase: Barron. Hickson ana Maine. The Community's Biggest Marketplace Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for monoay: omer aays 9:4U previous aay. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Try that wondertul pick-up Mobilgas R! Peppy Plymouth! Agile! Bright-eyed! Frisky! Mobilgas R does it! 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